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To: SteveH
Fifty years after shots rang out

I've heard that damned 'shots rang out' phrase for 50 years. In all of my experience, I have never heard shots 'ring'.

8 posted on 11/26/2013 9:36:18 AM PST by tbpiper
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To: tbpiper
I've heard that damned 'shots rang out' phrase for 50 years. In all of my experience, I have never heard shots 'ring'.

"Shots rang out" is speaking from the perspective of a ding-a-ling.

:-)

22 posted on 11/26/2013 10:13:15 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. J.F. Kennedy)
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To: tbpiper
I've heard that damned 'shots rang out' phrase for 50 years. In all of my experience, I have never heard shots 'ring'.

Well zing is similar to ring. three out of four letters.

47 posted on 11/30/2013 11:02:50 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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